"in the radio ""Dragnet"" and the network insisted that he continue in the leading role. The template for the TV show was simply the proven radio formula, embellished with visuals. The two familiar leads, Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, settled in for the first season, disrupted when Yarborough suffered a heart attack and died. Webb wrote his partner's demise into the storyline, and Sgt. Friday rode with various partners until settling on Ben Alexander as detective Frank Smith. Most of the episodes available to viewers today feature Webb and Alexander. Most, if not all, episodes of this series are in"
"included two films and four television series. The series starred Jack Webb as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero. Gibney shared announcing responsibilities along with George Fenneman. Gibney, alternating with Fenneman, was known for announcing the opening of the show which went as so: Gibney stayed with the show until its end on the radio on February 26, 1957. Gibney served as the announcer for ""The Penny Singleton Show"". The series premiered as a summer replacement series on May 30, 1950 on NBC radio. The series starred Penny Singleton, Jim Backus and Gale Gordon. He"
"of the show. Friday narrated every story, providing details in voiceover of what went down and where. He had several bits of consistent dialogue that remained throughout the series. The opening narration in the original 1951-59 TV series remained brief and straightforward: What followed was the introduction of the story's plot (""It was [day of the week and date], it was [weather conditions] in Los Angeles; we were working the [day/night] watch out of [police division]. The boss is [name]. My partner's [Ben Romero/Frank Smith/Bill Gannon]. My name's Friday."" In many openings from episodes of the 1967-70 revival series Friday"
"also picked up as a television series by NBC, which aired episodes each season from 1952 to 1959. Webb played Sgt. Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough co-starred as Sgt. Ben Romero. After Yarborough's death, Ben Alexander joined the cast. Webb was a stickler for attention to detail. He believed viewers wanted ""realism"" and tried to give it to them. Webb had tremendous respect for those in law enforcement. He often said, in interviews, that he was angry about the ""ridiculous amount"" of abuse to which police were subjected by the press and the public. Webb was also impressed by the"
"TV debut of ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"". Besides ""TV Tornado"", another similar comic was ""Solo"", which like the former contained strips based on the Mysterons to acquaint readers further with the world of ""Captain Scarlet"". ""TV Tornado"" also followed ""The Lone Ranger"" (1949 – 57), ""Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"" (1964 – 68), ""Tarzan"" (1966 – 68), ""The Saint"" (1962 – 69) and ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."" (1964 – 68). ""Solo"" merged with ""TV Tornado"" prior to the latter's own merger with ""TV21"". TV Century 21 TV Century 21, later renamed TV21 (from issue 155), TV21 and"
"was added in December 1955. During the 1964-65 season, the Saturday broadcast was temporarily replaced by ""Mr. Mayor"", a children's program that served as a vehicle for ""Captain Kangaroo"" star Bob Keeshan; after returning in the fall of 1965, the Saturday edition of ""Captain Kangaroo"" was discontinued again in 1968, relegating it to weekdays only. Except for pre-emptions due to breaking news coverage, notably the network's three-day-long continuous coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, and a few episodes that ran for 45 minutes, the program aired as an hour-long broadcast on weekday mornings until 1981. On"
"of the series was intended ""to deflect fears that television might become a nursemaid to children and encourage 'bad mothering. Although ""Andy Pandy"" had been regularly broadcast every week since mid-1950 (normally on Tuesdays), and was joined by ""Flower Pot Men"" in December 1952 (normally on Wednesdays), the name ""Watch with Mother"" was not adopted until April 1953, shortly before the programming was expanded to three afternoons a week with the addition of ""Rag, Tag and Bobtail"" that September. The ""classic"" cycle of shows was in place by September 1955, with the first showing of ""The Woodentops"". Broadcast at 1:30"
"Decoy (TV series) Decoy (also titled Decoy Police Woman) is a groundbreaking American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with thirty-nine 30-minute black-and-white episodes. It was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many ""Decoy"" episodes are in the public domain. The series starred Beverly Garland as Patricia ""Casey"" Jones, a female police officer who is often assigned to work undercover (hence becoming the ""decoy"" of the title). The cast changed each week, with Garland's Casey Jones the only continuing character. Various police colleagues and commanding"
"Once Upon a Tune Once Upon a Tune is a weekly half-hour American television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network, premiering on March 6, 1951, and running to May 15, 1951. The series presented original musical productions which were often satirical and tongue-in-cheek adaptations of either classic fairy tales or contemporary Broadway musicals. Bea Arthur made her TV debut on this series. The Paley Center for Media holds kinescope copies of three episodes – one spoofing ""Three Little Pigs"", one spoofing ""Rapunzel"", and the third on a 57-minute kinescope film reel. (This latter reel also contains an episode"
"are known to exist. Atom Squad Atom Squad was an American science-fiction TV series that was broadcast live 5 times a week by the NBC network (out of their Philadelphia studios), Monday July 6, 1953 to January 22, 1954, running Monday through Friday, 5:00 to 5:15 PM EST. Each episode was only 15 minutes long. There were a total of 142 black and white episodes in all. The ""Atom Squad"" is a secret government agency which dealt with Cold War threats to US security involving radiation and nuclear weapons. The Atom Squad scientists, Steve Elliot and Dave Fielding, were played"
"bad writing."" Kay Phillips played the title character, and Tudor Owen played her editor. Lamont Johnson and Eric Sinclair had supporting roles. James Dean was heard on the program in July 1951. Frank Martin was the announcer. The producer was Rogers Brackett, and the director was Robert Shue. Phillips was a writer, along with E. Jack Neuman and John Michael Hayes. Alias Jane Doe Alias Jane Doe is a radio adventure drama in the United States. It was broadcast on CBS April 7, 1951 - September 22, 1951. Episodes of ""Alias Jane Doe"" related the adventures of ""a female magazine"
"Marge and Jeff Marge and Jeff is an early American sitcom broadcast Monday through Friday on the DuMont Television Network during the 1953-1954 television season. The main claim to fame of this series is the fact that, unlike many other American sitcoms of the 1950s, it appeared every weekday at 7:15 pm ET, after ""Captain Video and His Video Rangers"" during its original run. The show starred and was written by Marge Greene. Each episode was 15 minutes long. The series, at one point, received a Neilson rating of 13.6. The series was largely set in the living room and"
"daytime schedule. Debuting on February 12, 1951 at 2:45 PM with radio personality Barry Gray as emcee, this iteration aired for 45 minutes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the show aired for a half-hour and was paired with ""Bride and Groom"". The series originally ran up against the informational show ""Vacation Wonderland"" on NBC and local programming on ABC (which did not program from 2:00-3:00 until 1958). On March 12, ""Wonderland"" was cut back to 15 minutes and moved to 3:15 PM; its replacement, the soap opera ""Miss Susan"", did not do very well but nonetheless"
"Somerset Maugham TV Theatre Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (originally known as Teller of Tales for the first three episodes) was an American anthology drama program. The series aired on CBS from October 18, 1950–March 28, 1951 and on NBC from April 2, 1951–December 10, 1951 airing, in total, 47 episodes. The series made its debut on October 18, 1950 on CBS. The series was a half-hour (later 60 minute) drama whose episodes were based off the works and novels of the show's namesake William Somerset Maugham. Maugham made special appearances at the beginning and ending of each play always giving"
"Joe Friday joined by Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon. (Webb had tried to get Ben Alexander to reprise his role as Frank Smith, but he was unable to get Alexander to leave the ABC series ""Felony Squad."") The new ""Dragnet"" premiered as a midseason replacement series on January 12, 1967, and aired until April 16, 1970. To distinguish it from the original series, the year of production was added to the title (""Dragnet 1967,"" ""Dragnet 1968,"" etc.). The revival emphasized crime prevention and outreach to the public. Its attempts to address the contemporary youth-drug culture (such as ""The LSD"
"of ""Mr. Dynamite"", a TV series or pilot based on an earlier Hollywood movie of the same name based on a Dashiell Hammett story.) According to Edie Adams, an actress who worked at DuMont for several years, much of the network's programming archive was destroyed in the 1970s. Once Upon a Tune Once Upon a Tune is a weekly half-hour American television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network, premiering on March 6, 1951, and running to May 15, 1951. The series presented original musical productions which were often satirical and tongue-in-cheek adaptations of either classic fairy tales or"
"Amazon Prime. Decoy (TV series) Decoy (also titled Decoy Police Woman) is a groundbreaking American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with thirty-nine 30-minute black-and-white episodes. It was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many ""Decoy"" episodes are in the public domain. The series starred Beverly Garland as Patricia ""Casey"" Jones, a female police officer who is often assigned to work undercover (hence becoming the ""decoy"" of the title). The cast changed each week, with Garland's Casey Jones the only continuing character. Various police colleagues"
"by Nielsen Media Research. (*) From December 1951 to June 1952, these shows were 30 minutes, 10pm to 10:30pm ET <nowiki>*</nowiki>formerly ""Four Star Revue"" 1951–52 United States network television schedule The 1951–52 United States network television schedule began in September of 1951 and ended in the spring of 1952. This was the first television season of national network interconnection by coaxial cable and microwave, meaning programming could be transmitted live coast-to-coast (or in the case of filmed programs, distributed simultaneously across the country) if needed. On Sunday nights, NBC experimented with airing its new comedy-variety program ""Chesterfield Sound-off Time"" (featuring"
"""Pantomime Quiz""; and ""Tom Corbett, Space Cadet""—to appear on all four TV networks during the Golden Age of Television. The series was broadcast weekly, on early Sunday evenings, on DuMont until September 25, 1949, then moved to NBC Television in October 1949 where it remained until September 1952. NBC then hosted it from April 1953 to September 1954. ""The Original Amateur Hour"" finished at #27 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1950–1951 season. The show moved to ABC (October 1955 to June 1957), then returned to NBC (July 1957 to October 1958). It then ran from May 1959 to October"
"the first three months, ""Captain Kangaroo"" was only seen on weekday mornings. From December 1955 until 1968, the show was also seen on Saturday mornings, except in the 1964-1965 season, when it was replaced by a Keeshan vehicle called ""Mr. Mayor"". Except for pre-emption by news or special events, notably the four-day continuous coverage which followed the November 22, 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, and a few shows that were 45 minutes, the show aired a full 60 minutes on weekday mornings until 1981. It was broadcast in color from September 9, 1966 onward. The audience of children could"
"Director-producer Ralph Nelson, himself of Norwegian descent, went on to direct the film ""Lilies of the Field"". The series received two Emmy nominations: one in 1951 and another (for Peggy Wood's performance) in 1957. ""Mama"" was one of the first TV sitcoms to consistently finish in the Nielsen ratings' top 30 after they were instituted in the 1950–1951 season: In the 1954–1955 seasons and afterward, ""Mama"" was not in the top 30 and its ratings data are not available. Mama (TV series) Mama is a weekly Maxwell House and Post Cereal-sponsored CBS Television comedy-drama series that ran from July 1,"
"1951–52 United States network television schedule (weekday) Following are the programs on the 1951–1952 United States network television weekday schedule, listing daytime Monday–Friday schedules on three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1951. All times are Eastern and Pacific. This page is missing info on the DuMont Television Network, which started daytime transmission before any other United States television network. Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in"
"Drew as Sharon Richards, and George Pembroke as Lieutenant Andrews. UCLA Film and Television Archive has 17 episodes of this series. Internet Archive and TV4U also have one episode each. Unlike many other programs which aired on DuMont, the series was produced on film by an outside production company. A few episodes are available on DVD and online, usually as part of early TV compilations. Front Page Detective Front Page Detective is an American crime drama series which aired on the DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET from July 6, 1951, to September 19, 1952, and in"
"bold. 1951–52 United States network television schedule (weekday) Following are the programs on the 1951–1952 United States network television weekday schedule, listing daytime Monday–Friday schedules on three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1951. All times are Eastern and Pacific. This page is missing info on the DuMont Television Network, which started daytime transmission before any other United States television network. Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted"
"1950–51 United States network television schedule The 1950–51 United States network television schedule began in September of 1950 and ended in the spring of 1951. This season became the first in which primetime was entirely covered by the networks. It was also the inaugural season of the Nielsen rating system. Late in the season, the coast-to-coast link was in service. In September 1950 NBC added two live variety series, ""Four Star Revue"" and ""The Colgate Comedy Hour"", to its fall schedule. These programs were a network effort to bring NBC's most popular radio stars to television; talent included Eddie Cantor,"
"51 (film) 51 is a 2011 American horror film directed by Jason Connery and starring Bruce Boxleitner and John Shea. It is part of the After Dark Originals lineup. The film premiered on the SyFy Channel on February 26, 2011. Political and public pressure coerces the government into allowing two well-known reporters and their assistants limited access to the ultra-secretive Area 51. The group consists of 20-year news veteran Sam Whitaker (John Shea); his camera-woman Mindy (Lena Clark); Claire Fallon (Vanessa Branch), an ambitious writer, journalist, and head of an acclaimed news blog called The Fact Zone; and her cameraman"
"to predict major crime waves before the news broke. Produced throughout its run in New York City, the series began as a 15-minute serial, becoming a half-hour, self-contained series three months later as a summer replacement for ""The Bob Hope Show"" beginning June 27, 1939. During 1942, Mr. District Attorney began battling Nazis, leading to conflicts with the FBI when the scripts reflected life too closely. The program was sponsored by Bristol-Myers. Near the end of the radio run, the series was transferred to television. The first incarnation ran on ABC from October 1, 1951 through June 23, 1952, airing"
"TV series was based on a popular series of short stories by Everett Rhodes Castle published in ""The Saturday Evening Post"". The pilot for the series aired on May 31, 1953, on an episode of the ""ABC Album/Plymouth Playhouse"". When the series was revived in 1958, it was retitled ""Colonel Flack"". The 39 episodes (all remakes of the original 39 episodes) aired from October 5, 1958, to July 5, 1959 in syndication. The syndicated programs were made by Desilu Productions and featured Mowbray and Jenks in their original roles. At least 12 episodes of the DuMont series are in the"
"last, mostly retiring to a quiet life, except for a brief spell as what her husband described (in a 1952 essay) as ""a comedienne now making her come-down as a disc jockey."" Jane came out of retirement to join her husband as an NBC Radio ""Monitor"" ""Communicator"" when the show premiered in 1955. The Aces were hired for the spot just after Dave Garroway's participation in the program was announced. The couple was also part of the NBC Radio ""Weekday"" show which made its debut not long after Monitor. It aired Monday through Friday, and was intended to reach female"
"Front Page Detective Front Page Detective is an American crime drama series which aired on the DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET from July 6, 1951, to September 19, 1952, and in October and November 1953. The program was then in broadcast syndication for several years thereafter. ""Front Page Detective"" stars Edmund Lowe as David Chase, a newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries. The title derived from a popular true-crime magazine of the same name, and stories were based on material from the magazine. Other cast members were Frank Jenks as Lieutenant Rodney, Paula"
"Atom Squad Atom Squad was an American science-fiction TV series that was broadcast live 5 times a week by the NBC network (out of their Philadelphia studios), Monday July 6, 1953 to January 22, 1954, running Monday through Friday, 5:00 to 5:15 PM EST. Each episode was only 15 minutes long. There were a total of 142 black and white episodes in all. The ""Atom Squad"" is a secret government agency which dealt with Cold War threats to US security involving radiation and nuclear weapons. The Atom Squad scientists, Steve Elliot and Dave Fielding, were played by Robert Courtleigh and"
"Mama (TV series) Mama is a weekly Maxwell House and Post Cereal-sponsored CBS Television comedy-drama series that ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957. The series was based on the memoir ""Mama's Bank Account"" by Kathryn Forbes, which was also adapted for the John Van Druten play (1944) and the subsequent film ""I Remember Mama"" (1948), and told the ongoing story of a loving Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s through the eyes of the elder daughter, Katrin Hansen (Rosemary Rice). Katrin would be seen looking through the pages of the family album at the"
"Theodore Sturgeon, John D. McDonald, Murray Leinster, Frank Belknap Long and Milton Lesser. After its initial cancellation, there was at least one report that the network planned on reviving it, but this did not happen. Actors appearing in the series included: Out There (1951 TV series) Out There was a short-lived science fiction television program broadcast on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. EST on CBS Television from October 28, 1951 through January 13, 1952. It was one of the first science fiction anthology series, and one of the first shows to mix filmed special effects with ""live"" action. It only lasted"